Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby’s January 26 remarks at Seoul’s Sejong Institute represent the first significant diplomatic articulation of the operational logic underlying the 2026 National Defense Strategy. Speaking in South Korea on his inaugural international trip, Colby translated the NDS’s sometimes abrasive rhetoric about burden-sharing into a coherent strategic framework centered … Continue reading From Strategy to Diplomacy: Colby’s Seoul Speech and the Operationalization of Flexible Realism